Tudor Embraces Two-Tone With Black Bay Chronograph S&G

Tudor's release of the first Black Bay Chronograph in 2017 was inarguably one of the watch world's most intriguing stories that year, mostly owing to the timepiece's use of a new movement sourced not from Tudor's "Big brother" brand, Rolex, but from stopwatch specialist Breitling The Black Bay Chronograph S&G is a vintage-look two-tone timepiece that will remind many Rolex aficionados of the classic "John Player Special" Cosmograph Daytona model of the late 1960s The Tudor Black Bay Chronograph S&G adds new materials and colors to its 2017 predecessor, using yellow gold for the bezel, crown and chronograph pushers, along with an anodized aluminum insert for the fixed tachymeter-scale bezel.

All the now-familiar Black Bay hallmarks are present: the "Snowflake" hands characteristic of the Tudor dive watches used by the French Navy in the 1970s; the domed dial and crystal that were common on those selfsame watches; and the large winding crown from the 1958 Tudor "Big Crown" dive watch The chronograph pushers are said to have been inspired by those used on early Tudor chronograph watches Inside the bi-material chassis is the high-performance engine of this motorsport-influenced timekeeper, Tudor's Caliber MT5813, based on Breitling's automatic, integrated-chronograph Caliber B01.

Tudor Caliber MT5813, to which Tudor has added its own in-house-developed regulating organ, retains all the considerable attributes Breitling packed into the B01 when it was first unveiled in 2009 for the brand's 125th anniversary: bidirectional winding, a column-wheel controlled chronograph mechanism with a vertical clutch, a 70-hour power reserve in a single mainspring barrel, a non-magnetic silicon balance spring, a speedy 28,800-vph frequency, and a COSC chronometer certification The Tudor Black Bay Chronograph S&G is offered on three different strap/bracelet options: a steel-and-gold bracelet whose design and stepped construction are inspire d by the folding riveted bracelets on Tudor watches produced in the 1950s and 1960s; a black fabric strap made especially for Tudor's Heritage watches on 19th-century Jacquard looms by a 150-year-old family company based in Switzerland's Saint-Etienne region; or a "Bund"-style strap in aged brown leather with ecru stitching. . Source